Crossin v. Woolf
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Anna R. Crossin, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the respondents, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 21st day of July, 1915, upon the decision of the court after a trial at the New York Special Term.
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Appeal by the plaintiff, Anna R. Crossin, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the respondents, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 21st day of July, 1915, upon the decision of the court after a trial at the New York Special Term. Plaintiff appeals from said judgment in so far as it adjudges that the tax hen foreclosed herein is subject and subordinate to easements appurtenant to premises owned by the respondents and decrees that the premises covered by said tax hen be sold subject to said easements.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This is an action to foreclose a tax hen and it is brought by the transferee of the hen. The premises upon which the tax was levied were formerly part of the roadbed of Fifth avenue as shown on a map made by property owners and entitled or indorsed “ Map of the Village of Mt. Eden near upper
*608Morrisania depot, in the town of West Farms, Westchester County, N. Y.,” and filed by them in the clerk’s office of Westchester county in 1854. That territory was annexed to the city of New York by chapter 613 of the Laws of 1873. Fifth avenue as so delineated was duly accepted and adopted as…
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- Astor v. ThwaitesAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1915
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